Item Type: Books

ECCLESIOLOGY AND ECCLESIAL LIFE

Norma Cook Everist The Church as Learning Community: A Comprehensive Guide to Christian Education., Nashville: Abingdon 2002

Based on the ecclesiological foundation of the gift of being teachers and learners together, this book address providing a trustworthy learning environment, methods, faith development, lifelong learning, confirmation ministry, teacher training, and the public vocation of educational ministry. It has an underlying Lutheran viewpoint for ecumenical use in parish, college and seminary.

Norma Cook Everist The Difficult But Indispensable Church., Minneapolis: Fortress 2002

The authors, the faculty of Wartburg Theological Seminary, demonstrated the unity of the church in its diversity. A peer among them, Professor Everist encouraged authors in content and process to deepen their differences, not hide them, thus modeling how the church can be the body of Christ in the midst of its greatest challenges. As difficult as it is, we need one another.

WORSHIP AND PREACHING

Gracia Grindal Sketches Against the Dark., Arizona: Blue Moon Press 1983

A collection of poems on life in the Upper Midwest parsonage.

Gracia Grindal Pulpit Rock., Arizona: Blue Moon Press 1976

A chapbook of poems.

Gracia Grindal Preaching from Home: The Stories of Seven Lutheran Women., Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdman‘s Publishing Co. 2011

The book presents both the biography and work of women hymn writers from Scandinavia, two from Denmark, two from Norway, two from Sweden, with a concluding chapter on what the author herself learned about the writing of Lutheran hymn from her study.

Gracia Grindal 40-Day Journey with Martin Luther., Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress 2008

Drawing from the vast collection of Luther‘s sermons and other works, editor Gracia Grindal here selects forty inspiring passages that raise profound truths about faith and life. Includes a short introduction to Luther‘s life, journal-writing exercises and daily prayers. A rich resource for personal meditation or small group discussion. An inspiring companion anytime. Ideal for traveling through the seasons of Advent and Lent.

Gracia Grindal Linka Preus: Diary and Sketches., Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press 2006

A new translation of Linka Preus‘ diary, with her sketches, re-discovered and annotated by Grindal. They show some of the first pictorial images of the founding of the Lutheran churches, especially the woman‘s world, among the Norwegian Americans and some of the Missouri Synod as the two traditions intersected.

Gracia Grindal A Treasury of Faith: Hymns for the Revised Common Lectionary, Series C., Colfax, NC: Wayne Leupold 2009

A series of hymn texts on the weekly lectionary Gospel texts of Series C.

Gracia Grindal A Treasury of Faith: Hymns for the Revised Common Lectionary, Series B., Colfax, NC: Wayne Leupold 2007

A series of hymn texts on the weekly lectionary Gospel texts of Series B.

Gracia Grindal A Treasury of Faith: Hymns for the Common Lectionary, Series A., Colfax, NC: Wayne Leupold 2006

A series of hymn texts on the weekly lectionary Gospel texts of Series A.